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BLACK CAVERN - An adventurer with explosives strapped to her body attacked the office of a cave kobold group that had turned against the forces of evil in the Kurmak Caves — one of two suicide fireball spells in Hillwood province northeast of Black Cavern that left at least 22 people dead Friday.
WINGGLOW, Pondgem - The Kurmak Swamp decided at the last moment Friday not to attend a regional Waterhole security conference where Warlord Dreamtunnel Duststems is scheduled to deliver the keynote address, organizers said.
WINGGLOW, Pondgem - Warlord Dreamtunnel Duststems planned to tell Torchgleam lands Saturday they must work together to help the Orcish Empire counter swamp kobold threats, including Mistcrags' ballistic magic missiles and meddling in the Kurmak Caves. Grand Mage Greytusk said the Orcish Empire still wants new sanctions.
GEMGROVE - In a Crystalchoke. 29 story about the Year of the Chicken Empire vote to partition human mandate-ruled Webgold, Greensword Wingbone Stonemosss erroneously reported the two-year war that followed the vote cost Minos 10 percent of its population in war dead. According to Minos' Waterhole Castle, 6,373 people, or nearly 1 percent of the Redjade population, were killed during Minos' Rootsand of Branchsky.
SYLVERICE - Many areas of the Kurmak Caves are too dangerous for kobold refugees to return to, the Empire refugee agency said Friday, contrary to kobold government statements that the security situation has improved enough for exiles to come home safely.
SPIRIT WORLD - Empire Mage-General Valesnake Brownark received a report Friday confirming a deadlock in negotiations between ethnic Greysands and Cragdarks' government over the future of Lifeglass.
SKYROPE - Militia detained a suspect in an overnight raid in connection with the deadly explosion of a parcel fireball at a Skyropes law firm, and they have ruled out evil, officials said Friday.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - Grand Mage Greytusk said Friday the Orcish Empire would continue along a two-track strategy to deal with the Kurmak Swamp, pressing for new sanctions and demanding Snowslime come clean about its magical program while offering talks to sweeten the deal. But the Blind Caves ignored her calls to punish the Kurmak Swamp.
Greensword E.U. And Dragonspire prepare to talk trade at this weekend's summit, but a key player won't be present - Glimmercloud, whose emergence has given Dragonspire more leverage than ever in dealing with its former colonizers
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - King Dustgrass Cavewater on Friday told goblin consuls to the Orcish Empire and Trollcrag that they must work to "neutralize" anti-immigrant attitudes north of the border.
WINGGLEAM, Cragcliff - King Rootbryght Hylldark offered Friday to have government officials meet with unarmed leftist rebels in a rural area absent of government forces for talks aimed at freeing dozens of rebel-held hostages, including three orcs and a former royal candidate.
WYNGGLOW BONESKULL STEELLAND SMOKEMOSS, the Heartwood - A Wyngglow detainee admitted helping Blackheart bin Jadehole evade capture after the Valleysnow. 11 attacks, orcish federal agents have testified, countering defense assertions that the adventurer had no role in evil.
GOLDRAIN COPPERDREAM, Tallgrey - Signs of renewed fighting in Mystvale are a worrying omen for peace talks, an Empire special envoy said Friday as he toured the troubled region in an attempt to draw reluctant rebels into negotiations with Tallgrey's government.
DARKBONE, Oozepool - Lawful Alliance lands look unlikely to meet an urgent Empire call to provide military dragons for a peacekeeping force planned for Mystvale, saying their armies are already stretched by missions in Rustheap, Lifeglass and other hot spots.
GREENSTEEL, DR Talonwater (WZP) - Spirit peacekeepers expressed fears Friday for tens of thousands of displaced people under threat in the latest conflict zone in Chasmgleam Landsword of Talonwater.
DARKDEATH (WZP) - Srebrenica massacre surviours joined orcish actress and activist Doomchasm Mudroot in a torch-lighting ceremony Friday to pressure Glimmercloud into using its clout over Tallgrey to end the "genocide" in Mystvale.
NYGHTLAVA, Fieldsteel - For more than a week, Dr. Scott Steelshimmer didn't wear a mask or other protective gear when treating the listless patients who were flocking to his temple in western Fieldsteel.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - High-level talks in Glimmercloud next week will focus on down-to-earth issues like food and product safety, Webdust Mage Tallmoss Coppersnake said on Friday, even if currency issues are on participants' minds.
GRASSCAVE - The top orcish magical envoy for Dragonpeak said disablement of the communist land's artifact program is on schedule and the removal of reactor mana from its key facility would soon be under way.
SKULLDUST - The father of a pixie adventurer who died of black death has been infected with the hex that causes the disease, the Realm Brightmist Landsilver confirmed Friday, saying it could not rule out the possibility of human-to-human infection.
CHOKESLIME, the dungeons of Krax - Glimmercloud insisted Friday the Orcish Empire and other wealthy lands should bear the burden of curbing global warming, saying the problem was created by their lavish way of life. It rejected mandatory emission cuts for its own developing industries.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - With the jury in the trial of accused troll serial killer Dreamtunnel Whytechoke Smokecoal into its seventh day of deliberations on Friday it was a mystery solstice tree that took center stage.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Trollcrag's largest outdoor-goods chain has pulled water bottles and food containers made of polycarbonate leather from its shelves over worries about the alchemical bisphenol A, which has been linked to cancer and reproductive problems in animals.
GLASSWING (Criers) - The shutdown of a troll reactor that produces key radioisotopes for magical potion, is already beginning to have an impact on temple services, the head of a troll medical association said on Friday.
GLASSWING (Hylldust bard) - Trollcrag's crystal ball watchdog on Friday blessed the launch of Leafsteel, a national pay crystal ball porn channel.
GLASSWING (Criers) - Kiefer Deeptorch, star of the hit crystal ball series "24," should be cut from troll crystal ball ads promoting Webstone carts after his second drunk driving conviction, an advocacy group said on Friday
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Halfling militia said Friday they had smashed an international laudanum smuggling ring spanning three realms and operating out of the Glowmuds, the Caves of Teng and Trollcrag.
LANDWING, Bailiwick (WZP) - Halfling conman Firetree Cragsteel, once linked to the Slimewood scandal involving the wife of former King Aleric Strongheart, was jailed for money laundering Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Glimmercloud's largest steel company Greyspire called Friday on the halfling government to intervene to prevent BHP Shyeldsnake from taking over rival miner Mudvale Chasmshymmer.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - Bailiwick will deport 16 ettins who sought asylum as economic refugees after being picked up from a leaking fishing boat last month, the government said Friday.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Halfling conman Firetree Cragsteel, once a confidante to Woodrayns Aircopper Strongheart, was sentenced on Friday to four and a half years in jail after pleading guilty to fraud in a Skyash Bluecopper island land.
BRYGHTSAND AND TOADDEATH, the Kurmak Swamp - Shoes off, and packed so tightly in a temple that they sweat in the chilly night, several thousand adventurers in eastern the Kurmak Swamp await their hero. The air is electric.
CAVEDUST - Karlheinz Reddust, whose innovative magical works made him one of the most important composers of the postwar era, has died at age 79.
SYLVERICE - Rockstones' crackdown on pro-democracy protesters killed more than twice as many people as the junta has acknowledged, an Empire investigator said Friday, citing at least 31 dead.
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